乔姆斯基：川普为什么会崛起？
乔姆斯基当年就是我的偶像，偶像现在还活跃着，这次他又对美国大选接受采访，发表感慨。在他看来，川普之所以会冉冉升起，并可能最终成为共和党的总统候选人，乃是因为“恐惧”和“社会的分解”，因为人们在新自由主义时期感到孤立、无助并成为无可理喻无法驾驭的强权的牺牲品。他把现在的政治环境跟上世纪三十年代的大萧条时期相比较，认为现在的贫穷和痛苦比那时有过之而无不及。那时，即使在劳苦大众中，也还有希望，而这正是现在所缺少的。
Chomsky: Trump's rise due to 'breakdown of society'
02/24/16 10:35 AM EST
MIT professor and intellectual Noam Chomsky attributes Donald Trump’s success in the Republican presidential primary to “fear” and a “breakdown of society.”
In an interview published Tuesday, AlterNet’s Aaron Williams asked Chomsky for his thoughts on Trump’s “surprising progress.” After a second-place finish in Iowa, the billionaire has stormed to consecutive double-digit wins in New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada.
“Fear, along with the breakdown of society during the neoliberal period,” Chomsky responded. “People feel isolated, helpless, victim of powerful forces that they do not understand and cannot influence.”
Chomsky compared the political environment that’s allowed Trump to flourish to the 1930s, when the U.S. was in the Great Depression. “Objectively, poverty and suffering were far greater,” Chomsky said. “But even among poor working people and the unemployed, there was a sense of hope that is lacking now, in large part because of the growth of a militant labor movement and also the existence of political organizations outside the mainstream.”
Trump and Hillary Clinton are leading in their respective primaries, but Chomsky demurred when asked who he thought would win the White House.
“I can express hopes and fears, but not predictions,” he said.
Chomsky has contributed to Bernie Sanders’ campaigns in the past but said he would “absolutely” vote for Clinton over the Republican nominee if he lived in a swing state.
In an interview last month, Chomsky praised Sanders but said the Vermont senator didn’t have “much of a chance” due to “our system of mainly bought elections.”